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"Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans."
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"Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us."

"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."

"There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked."

"Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations."

"But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go."

"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner."

"They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?"
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